A consortium of six major car manufacturers and oil companies in Europe - Volkswagen, Daimler, Honda, Neste Oil, OMV and Shell – has today published a “biofuel roadmap” for the EU to 2030. The roadmap, prepared by technical consultancy E4tech, may be seen as an atttempt by industry to transcend the current deadlock between the European Parliament and EU Member States over new biofuels legislation, which is crippling biofuel investment. The … [Read more...]

A lot of arguments are put foward of why consumers would not want to buy electric vehicles, such as “range anxiety” or worries about lack of infrastruture. But according to Eduardo Avendaño of cleantech startup Ozone Drive, there is only one thing that really matters in the end: the price. Both policymakers and industry should focus on bringing down the sales price of electric cars. This is all the more important as government subsidies for … [Read more...]

As Member States are haggling in Brussels over a proposal from the Commission to set an emission goal of 95 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer (g/km) as an average for new vehicles sold in Europe from 2020 – which Germany in particularly finds too demanding for its car industry – new research by consultancies Ricardo-AEA and Cambridge Econometrics published on Monday shows that “decarbonizing” cars could generate 500,000 to 1.1 million net … [Read more...]